The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-06
GREENSBORO BUDGET.
THE CREAM OF THE WEEKS NEWS
FROM THE CITY OF FLOWERS.
Greensboro's Big Squirt Gun-Dots about
the Ho1idays-What the Pc oPle are Say
ing and Doing.

Greensboro's Big Squirt Gun-Dots about
the Holidays-What the Pc ople are Say
ing and Doing.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
GREENSBORO, Jan. 3.-One would sup
pose that with all the newspapers in the
State suspended during the holidays, the |
news had piled up as high as a man could
reach, but in Greensboro there has been a |
remarkable dearth of excitement and enthu- I
siasm during the Christmas season. Hard |
times strangled the usual festivities to con-
siderable extent, but Caldcleugh reports the
biggest rush and heaviest sales of any year
on record. Nothing startling took place
| till Christmas night the young men of the
place gave Lyrotechnic display in front OF
| the College for the benefit of the young la
dies They had something less than cord
of fire works and the boys held forth in a
perfect blaze of glory for an hour. Rockets
roman candles, dynamite cartridges, and
red lights combined to make the scene most
brilliant'and inspiring and the girls ranged
along in front of the college gave vent to
their appreciation by a continuous hand
clapping and loud vociferation, and the
boys would straggle around and steal tste-a-
tetes with the girls till sudden burst OF
splendor would reveal the tableau to the
eye of some yigilant matron when the in
vader would be promptly secuted. After
the display favored few were invited into
the parlors and enjoyed pleasant social
evening with the young ladies.
Greensboro will cut big notch in her
calendar for to-day. Her
NEW FIRE ENGINE
arrived few days ago. and the agent, lit
tie one armed expect, sent out by the man
ufacturers, was on hand to test the powers
of the machine. The fire company was out
in full force-brilliant in a new uniform,
helmets, &c. Notwithstanding the intense
cold-the male population generally-and
very many ladies were out to smell the
smoke and hear the steam and see the big
gest "squirt-gun'' performance that ever
showed in Greensboro. The waters spouted
the freezing mist flew, the yells went up
and amid it all, the "critter" fully met and
surpassed what had been claimed for it and
q everybody saw at once that any fire thai
|
effectually squelched.
S The public here has been singularly char
e table with regard to the case of
:. HON. JAMES w. REID.
e Very little of that II told you SO" whicl
e might have been expected, has been mani
n tested and his political enemies have re
Trained from gloating over his disgrace in
"a manner that is exceptionally magnanimou:
I. There is a strong and growing sentimer
- here in favor of the nomination of
COL. JAMES t. MoREHEAD
It for the next Congressman from this distric
s. The generous and manly spirit he has mai
TT ifested with ragard to his defeat for tn
State Senate has been very much compl
mented by his enemies and has enlisted IL
N friendship of many who fought him mo
40 bitterly in the recent election.
The North State Office has been remove
to the Mendenhall building Prof. o.
Carr has moved his family from Trini
College to this place.-The fnishir
% touches are just being put on the new Fe
eral Building.-The Morning Ne,
Z 0reenSDOrO new DAILY HAS DlOSSOmeu al
nd is neat and newsy.--It is now positive
as stated that new Opera House will soon
mt built.--Miss Kate Thornton has be
elected to fill the position recently vacat
he by Miss Carrie Caldwell in the Grad
m, School. The sensation Saturday abe
c.. Miss Curtis having taken q dose of mt
its phine instead of quinine by mistake O
L
physicians having reported no symptoms
be ,L;